Medical inspection was being rapidly adopted by normal schools, but very few trained student teachers to observe or test children¶

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Currency · newest study 1909 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 1914: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? Twenty-five schools had medical inspection while 46 had none, and very few schools trained student teachers to observe inspection work or make preliminary sight, hearing, and other tests. → Arthur Heche 1909

Evidence¶

Arthur Heche 1909¶

Arthur Heche. (1909). A Report on the Teaching and Practice of Hygiene in the Public Normal Schools of the United States. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org/journal/jeducreducpsyc

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Questionnaire returns on medical inspection. Forty-six schools have no regular inspection, six are making efforts toward it, and in 16 schools students have opportunity to observe the medical inspector's work. Two inspectors were not physicians.

"Twenty-five schools have medical inspection."

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